Name: OSO Show and Sale 2025
Start: 2025-02-28T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-28T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center

We've updated the show poster to emphasize our *New Location* Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center at 1335 W. Knapp St. Fayetteville, AR 72704. Also our entrance fee is slashed to $5.00 for adults, 12 and under free! (If you join the society at the show we will put 5 dollars toward your membership.)
If you have been to a previous show you know that we will have other orchid societies around our region, Kansas City, Springfield, Tulsa, and even Memphis will put in exhibits at our show, as well as our society and several individuals and groups. This is an official American Orchid Society judged show, so accredited AOS judges will do all the judging. This is rather like a big AKC dog show - to be an AOS orchid judge takes years of study and you are continuously evaluated by the more senior judges. We usually have several plants at our show that are given AOS "flower quality" awards, a sign of excellence.
We also order in orchids to sell from various vendors that we've vetted, from Hawaii, California, Louisiana, and even one local guy up in Missouri who has won scads of awards for his Vanda orchids. We always try to have a wide selection - things already in bud for people who want a quick hit of the tropics in March, smaller plants for those who like to grow things up themselves, weird things for people like me, things for a wide range of growing conditions ... the one kind you won't find many, or any, of is the ones you can find at grocery stores. We have some very good growers among our members and they'll be there to help people if they have questions about how to care for each type, or what might do best in their conditions.
We are also offering orchid care classes and this year the classes are back to being free, plus since we have more space they'll be less crowded. We'll have a basic orchid care class with a demo on how to repot an orchid (something that worries a lot of new orchid owners), and then one that goes deeper into some aspects of orchid growing for those who like to get a bit more technical.